Margaret T. Hance Park, which sits between 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue and Culver and Moreland Streets in Downtown Phoenix, is an engineering marvel.
Under the length of the park, the I-10 runs as a 2,887-foot-long below-grade tunnel called the Papago Freeway Tunnel. Before its completion, the half-mile stretch of the interstate was considered the “golden spike” because it was the last portion built to connect the East and West coasts.
In the early 1970s, the Downtown section of the interstate was initially envisioned as a series of 100-foot high circular loops, called helicoils, with a park plo
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